Threshold
a rite of passage ritual for women
A change in identity calls for a change in consciousness
Thresholds have been honored throughout human history by significant rites of passage—gathering of the community, celebration, altered states, and integration.
While we still gather and celebrate, we have forgotten how to honor the rite of passage as a significant shift in identity with integration, meaningful connection with our support system, and intention.
Anthropologists identify a three-part structure of ancient rites of passage: the leaving behind, the liminal crossing, and the return as someone changed.
Threshold is built on this ancient architecture and brought it into a modern healing framework by a clinical hypnotherapist with over 15 years of experience and formal training in the art of ritual.
The Rite of Passage Structure
Departure
You leave ordinary awareness and prepare to let go of the old identity. The old identity is honored and blessed by the group, and any grief that arises is held with care. The gathering circle, breathwork, and opening ritual create a container for the new consciousness to emerge.
The Liminal
You enter the space between identities. A deep, guided hypnotherapy journey brings the group into a state of altered receptivity. Rites have passage have historically utilized dance, song, substances, or other means of inducing trance. This experience uses a gentle hypnosis technique to induce an altered state where the group shares a liminal space that welcomes mind, body, and spirit to work in tandem to support transition and new growth.
Return
Facilitated integration allows the experience to settle. The honoree is recognized by their community as someone who has crossed into a new chapter. The group is is recognized as a vital support system for the honoree’s passage.
What’s included
i. Opening gathering circle and shared intention setting
ii. Ritual and ceremony tailored to your occasion and honoree incorporating the three-step structure for the rite of passage
iii. Gentle breathwork and movement for somatic awareness and body presence
iv. Deep, guided group journey into liminal states (via hypnotherapy)
v. Extended decompression, restful integration, and return
A 4–5 hour experience. Groups of up to 12. Held at your space.
Who this is for
The fiercely independent woman who is becoming a partner
The wild woman who is becoming a mother
The graduate about to step into her envisioned future
The woman releasing a long relationship, and stepping into herself again
The woman grieving someone she loved
An author who has poured years into a new book
Or any other woman standing at the threshold of a new chapter in her life that wants to celebrate, release the past, and create space for the unknown.
No prior experience with hypnotherapy or wellness work required. Hypnotherapy is a useful tool for its ability to induce gently altered states of consciousness similar to a flow state or high level of focus on the inner world without substances.
Why this is different
Most transition experiences are designed around entertainment or are solely celebratory in nature. This can fail to honor the depth of the transition and become logistical stressors to women who are navigating complex identity shifts.
Threshold draws on what ancient traditions embodied by design. Trance, community witnessing, ritual, and intentional rest are time-tested technologies of transformation.
About your guide
Threshold is led by Caitlin Dee, a clinical hypnotherapist (CCHt) and certified wellness practitioner with over 15 years of experience working with women in states of transition and transformation.
Her approach to altered states is rooted in formal study of meditation and consciousness under the silent Indian guru Baba Hari Dass. Her practice of earth-based ritual and community ceremony draws on training with Starhawk, whose work has shaped modern understanding of how women gather, grieve, and mark the sacred.
Caitlin brings these lineages together inside a ceremonial framework—creating experiences that are at once grounded, safe, and genuinely transformative.
Investment
Threshold Experience — $1,100
Gathering circle · Ritual & ceremony · Breathwork · Group hypnotherapy · Decompression & integration
Groups up to 12 · Held at your chosen venue (not included)
Add-On: Private Hypnotherapy for the Honoree — +$500
One dedicated session before and one after the experience. Recommended for brides and women navigating significant loss or change.
Inquire about your Threshold event
If you're interested in a Threshold event , complete the form with a few details about the transition you’re moving through, and we will reach out to discuss the next steps in working together.
"Without effective rites of passage, we might enter the next stage in only a partial or compromised way."
— Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul